The father of a five-year-old girl who was abducted and brutally raped in
Delhi said that police had offered him a bribe worth 2000 rupees, about £24,
to keep quiet about the attack and told him to “thank god that his daughter
was alive”.

Speaking with journalists outside the Swami Dayananda Hospital in east Delhi,
where the girl is still fighting for her life in an intensive care unit, the
father of the victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said: “We
went to the police to register a report but they refused. They never tried
to find her